To add another piece of reality, on the same day Wall Street announced record highs, they were joined by the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, who announced another record high — in January, an unprecedented 21,000 children, 1% of the city's youth, slept each night in a homeless shelter, a 22% increase over last year. "New York is facing a homeless crisis worse than any time since the Great Depression," says President of the Coalition for the Homeless, Mary Brosnahan.

Your statistics make it clear that we still have a long way to go before the entire economy is back on it's feet. Thanks.

Here's a fact many people don't realize, that even though the DJIA is back up to over 14,000, it needs to be $15,731.50 to be equal to it's value in 2007. The Dow does not measure the health of the economy.